Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 195 Long time no see
"Ah, speaking of which, this sister with glasses, you are the one who invited me and Moko to drink milk tea before... Hey, what's wrong with you?"

While Lin Xiaolu said the shocking words, Bai Jingxuan was still happy to reunite with the "good guy" in her memory, but the greeting between her and Bai Ji ended because of Lin Xiaolu's words before it even started.

The concept of "people who bathe in the slime of dead beasts" was thrown out, and the originally relaxed atmosphere suddenly became quite subtle again.

Everyone's eyes were focused on her for an instant, and then inexplicably focused on the blond girl beside her.

"Ah, you are the guy who was almost killed by the worm-level beast..."

The blond girl who was greeting everyone a few breaths ago was slightly startled at first, and then realized something belatedly. She pointed at Lin Xiaolu and shouted: "No, who said who took the slime from the broken beast?" Take a shower!”

"... Isn't it you?"

Lin Xiaolu blinked, made some gestures with her hands in mid-air, pointed at the other person's iconic golden hair and smooth forehead and said: "If you recall carefully, they look very similar, their voices are very similar, and they both came here recently. The magical girl in Fangting City can only be you, right?"

"I didn't say it wasn't me! I meant there's no such thing as bathing in animal slime!"

Shouting with some embarrassment, the blonde girl waved her fist: "That incident was an accident! It was an accident caused by the self-destruction of the beast before he died. I didn't mean it!"

"Your fighting method is aimed at making the remnant beast explode..."

"Who knew that after it exploded, there would be such disgusting things inside!"

It seemed that just recalling the relevant things made her feel sick. The blonde girl turned pale and couldn't help but press her abdomen: "Can you stop bringing up such disgusting memories? To be honest, I will spit it out if I recall it again. ”

"Ah, I'm sorry..." Seeing that the other party looked unhappy, Lin Xiaolu also realized that her remarks seemed to be about not opening the pot, so she turned her eyes sideways and decisively ended the topic.

It's just that the two of them have reached a consensus, but it doesn't mean that the other teammates have nothing to say.The two opened up the conversation in this way, and of course the others also had a lot to say.Especially Bai Jingxuan and the girl codenamed Bai Ji, they have met before, so naturally they are particularly familiar with them.In addition, Xia Liang was also quite curious about magical girls in other cities, and the few of them suddenly started chatting noisily.

Delphinium stood aside with her arms folded. Seeing the girls chatting enthusiastically, she didn't intend to extinguish their conversation. She just leaned against the wall and looked at the lounge not far away, waiting for the person she wanted to wait for.

After waiting like this for a few minutes, just as Delphinium tapped her arm and was already wandering, she heard a "click" and the door of the lounge was gently opened.

The sound of the door opening attracted the attention of the girls, and the chatter became much fainter. The main character, Maruka Aso, who had not appeared in the lounge until now, finally appeared in front of everyone.

At this time, she was no longer wearing the performance clothes on the stage, and her gorgeous makeup was completely removed, but she did not lose her color because of the makeup removal.She held one hand on the door frame, poked her head out of the lounge, glanced at the equally silent girls without saying a word, and curled her lips slightly.

"tutor."

"elder sister."

"..."

Three girls from Bai'an City greeted the woman behind the door one after another. Although the attitude of one of them seemed a little wrong, it was enough to make everyone focus on the woman.

Aso Maruka's eyes swept over the girls around her, first pausing on Lin Xiaolu, Bai Jingxuan, and Xia Liang, and then lingering on Lin Xiaolu for a while, and then intersecting with the girls from Bai'an City one by one. , and finally focused on Delphinium’s face.

Likewise, Delphinium was looking at her.

The eyes of the two met like this.

Before she left the stage, Delphinium had rehearsed it many times in her mind, feeling that she would have to question the other person's behavior after meeting him in private. But when the matter came to this point, she found that the atmosphere It's completely different from what I thought.

She originally thought that the other party had pulled her on the stage to play such a prank, and she was probably gloating in a bad way. But when she really saw Aso Maruka's expression, she realized that she seemed to have guessed wrong.

Because the other person's face was not a look of gloating or ridicule, but a smile of exhaustion, nostalgia, and relief.

Even 20 years ago, Delphinium rarely saw such a gentle expression on the other person's face.

"Is there anything you want to ask?" After a brief silence and looking at each other, it was Aso Maruka who initiated the conversation first.

"...What do you want to do by acting in such a drama?"

She didn't know what kind of medicine the other party was selling in the gourd, and Delphinium didn't want to waste her feelings. She just said expressionlessly: "Is this a bad prank by abruptly calling people on stage to cooperate with your performance?"

"Oh, a prank?"

Aso Maruka looked a little innocent and said, "Is this how you understand it?"

"...Probably better than a real prank."

Delphinium sighed: "I thought you were going to say loudly on stage, 'This is my former friend', and then perform a series of pranks and so on."

"This is a misunderstanding, sister. Even I am not incapable of distinguishing between ordinary jokes and embarrassing teasing. Inviting one's friends to the stage to embarrass them is not only a slight on friendship; Desecration of the stage.”

The corners of Aso Maruka's lips raised and her red eyes narrowed slightly: "Especially for the fans in the audience, if I reveal our relationship to myself and then let you speak in the name of a friend, then this matter Things have a completely different meaning to them.”

"What's the different meaning?"

"In a small way, it's called 'indifferent', but in a big way, it's called 'betrayal', right?"

Maruka Aso slowly walked out of the lounge, gradually closing the distance with Delphinium: "Whether it's singing or a concert. Although objectively speaking, it is distributing its own songs to fans, but in the experience of the fans themselves, Among them, this is closer to a 'one-on-one' direct spiritual dialogue."

"In an occasion like a concert, if the singer clearly states that his concert has other purposes, or that he has other things in mind, then it would be a kind of neglect to the fans who spend money to support him, and it is also a kind of incompetence."

Just like this, she walked until half a meter in front of Delphinium, and she stood still, lowering her head slightly: "Just like a competent magical girl needs to stabilize the people's hearts in addition to destroying the beasts; a competent singer needs to have good works as well. Resonating with fans at the concert. Emotional experience is very important, so I won’t do anything too outrageous on important occasions.”

Delphinium looked back at the other party in confusion: "...So?"

"So, I invite you to the stage because I simply want to commemorate the moment of reunion with my old friends. I can't help it. There are no more calculations, sister."

Aso Maroka said softly: "You don't need to feel strange to me because a lot of things have happened. No matter how many things are different from before, at least our previous relationship will not change."

"Is this also an 'emotional experience'?"

"Yes, you can think that this is an explanation or apology for my previous behavior because I am concerned about the emotional experience of my old friend, because I did not intend to make you unhappy."

Aso Maruka said helplessly: "But my estimate may be a bit wrong... No, it should be said that your temper has worsened a lot? Sorry, I thought you wouldn't be angry at such a joke. "

"I'm more confused than angry."

Delphinium frowned slightly: "You know, Aso, it's been 13 years. You haven't returned to this city for 13 years. You suddenly came back at such a time. I thought we should talk about something more. Urgent things." "More urgent things...confusion..."

The woman with red eyes looked at Delphinium with a slightly confused expression, and then nodded as if she had realized it: "Ah, I see. You think my joke is meaningless."

After she finished saying this, she suddenly closed her mouth and paused for a moment as if she was thinking about something. Then, she showed a slightly complicated smile: "It's meaningless, it's meaningless. Alas... you have really changed a lot. .”

This sentence seemed a little abrupt on this occasion, and it could even be said to have no beginning or end, but Delphinium still subtly followed the thoughts it wanted to express and responded.

"After all, so many years have passed. If there is no growth or change at all, wouldn't it seem like time was wasted?"

She looked up at her old teammates in front of her, and her voice softened a little: "The Maruka Aso in my memory was not a character who would apologize for such things. In the past, you would not explain to others the reason for your actions. "

"Explain your behavior? Aren't you the same? I thought I might never see the 'Delphinium' appear again in this life."

"...I originally thought so."

Delphinium paused her feet: "But a lot of things happened some time ago, and I still can't just sit back and wait for death."

"I heard, Fangting City seems to be in quite a lot of trouble recently."

"Who said that?"

"Dean."

"She still told you?"

"I took the initiative to ask."

Delphinium glanced at her doubtfully: "Why did you suddenly think of asking her about this?"

Aso Maruka smiled inexplicably: "Of course it's because I heard that a certain retired teammate in the past came back again, and even went to the city where I was stationed to show off his talents. Even my juniors and students have received a lot of guidance from that person, you Who is that person?"

"...I knew that old woman had no good intentions."

After hearing the other party's words and thinking about who had the idea for him to be sent to Bai'an in the first place, Delphinium suddenly understood the crux of the matter and couldn't help but press his temples: "I shouldn't have accepted it in the first place. Her request for reinstatement."

"It's not good to call her 'old woman' directly. She seems to dislike being called that."

Different from the sad look on Delphinium's face, as the beneficiary of this incident, Aso Maruka's expression was more cheerful: "No matter what, the result of the matter is good. Meeting old friends is a rare happy event, but you are actually Don’t want to see me?”

Delphinium pursed her lips helplessly.

From an emotional point of view, it is not a bad thing to see a friend who has been away for a long time, but meeting him at this juncture is just adding trouble.

Or to put it a little more hypocritically, it's not that she's unwilling, but she just hasn't made the mental preparation yet.

She has some experiences that she is not willing to tell her children and younger generations. Even Hong Siyu is not so clear about those things. Even if she knows a little, she will be wary of her own thoughts and will not tell them easily.

But Maruka Aso was different. This woman never minded if her words and deeds caused any trouble to other people. She just said what she wanted, no matter what she said.

The biggest difference between the woman in front of her, Maruka Aso, and Hong Siyu, who was also her former teammate, was that she was her companion when she first became a magical girl. Therefore, the two of them were inseparable. They know so many secrets about each other.

From the time when they were new magical girls at the species level, to the subsequent garden defense battle, the more they know each other's details, the more they understand each other, the more casual they get along.

Can Aso Maruka distinguish what can be said and what cannot be said?Delphinium actually had no idea, but saying "I don't want to see you" at this juncture seemed too callous.Obviously inappropriate.

"...If I have to say it, it's still happy to meet again." After thinking about it in her mind for a long time, she came to this conclusion.

"That's each other?" Maroka Aso laughed playfully when she received the response.

"Be with each other."

With a short sigh, Delphinium raised her eyelids slightly: "Anyway, long time no see, you seem to be in good condition."

"You're in good shape, too."

Maruka Aso echoed in turn: "In other words, being able to see you standing here with this look means that you are in a better state than when I left.

As she said this, she stretched out her right hand, holding it empty, as if inviting a handshake: "Then, maybe it's time for us to start cooperating again."

"Cooperation? What is it about?"

"There are many things, things about protecting the city, things about the country, things about Anya, things about Su Shengzi, and even things about you and His Excellency the Chief."

As he said this, Aso Maruka's expression became much more serious: "You said before that you wanted me to talk about serious things. Is this probably it?"

"...Are you checking?" Delphinium stared into her eyes.

"I'm checking. Or rather, I know the progress of the matter better than anyone else." Maruka Aso also looked at her seriously.

"Yes, very good."

Nodding, Delphinium stretched out her hand, held hands with the other party, and shook it slightly: "In that case, let's cooperate."

"Magical girl, flower card certification number 21032, affiliated to the investigation institute, code name Margaret." Aso Maruka said suddenly.

Hearing her self-reported number, Delphinium was stunned for a moment. After realizing that this seemed to be completing some kind of etiquette, she followed suit and said, "Magical girl, flower card certification number 41076, Delphinium."

After finishing speaking, the scene suddenly became quiet again. Not only were the two people shaking hands silent, but the girls watching the gossip on the side also held their breath, making no unnecessary noise at all.

Then, Aso Maruka suddenly smiled.

While smiling, she bent her knees, maintained the handshake posture, and gently turned to kneel on one knee.

After her knees touched the ground, she changed the handshake to a hand-holding gesture, gently lifted the back of Delphinium's hand, and then, when no one realized what she was doing, her lips touched the back of her hand like a dragonfly. Touched:
"At your service, my lady."

　The update is still a bit slow, I'm really sorry for the long wait.Because the status is still being adjusted, I will probably maintain an update frequency of once every 2 to 3 days during this period. I will adjust it as soon as possible, sorry for that.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)